Resource Tag: YOUNG WOMEN

Background: In Japan, there is a tendency to view COVID-19 infection as one’s own responsibility, which may result in more feelings of guilt than in other countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the curfew imposed by COVID-19 restricted social behavior and increased anxiety and loneliness, which may have increased the risk of suicide among young women, […]

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a coping strategy employed by young people in response to feelings of distress. Adolescents may communicate NSSI involvement to peers whom they turn to for support. How young people respond to peers engaging in NSSI, how this affects the friendship, and how these supporters cope with assuming and administering this role are largely […]

This study investigates suicide and overdoses in 1,119 consecutive patients (64% women), 15 to 34 years of age, presenting at the emergency department after self-poisoning from1994 to 2000 and followed regarding death to 2006. Regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses were performed for suicide and other causes of death. The patients had about a 60 times […]

OBJECTIVE: To establish whether the young women (15–24 year old) who committed suicide in Sweden (1999–2013) received antidepressant treatment or not, and to what extent, prior to and/or at the time of suicide. To investigate the belief that increased prescription of antidepressants would drastically reduce the number of suicides. METHODS: An analysis of data from […]